It's out in Denver too.

Why do 1.0 liter car engines make 68 HP when 600 CC motorcycle engines now make over 100? Sure, the bike engine is less restricted and more peaky, but surely with more than an additional 50% displacement something closer to 100 with reasonable torque is attainable.

Doesn't work for me either. I have the ringtones tab but it doesn't work yet.

The U.K. gets our programming (also mostly a load of trash, but even less inspired, perhaps) a year late. I don't know why it is, but that seems to be standard for exported broadcast programming.

They may or may not play the full length. They do have commercials but they don't always follow the typical 30 minute blocks so it may just be an hour and twenty minutes instead of an hour.

This story just keeps getting more and more depressing...

Why do people say "this wine is bad (I have had it and it is terrible) but it's cheap" as if cheapness absolves it of any and all sins? If you drink crummy wine because it's cheap, is the motivation just to get drunk (since you're not deriving pleasure from the flavor)? If that's the case, you can get drunk even cheaper with other products like Mad Dog 20/20.

This guy has been on 5th Gear a couple of times. The first was when he was buying a Michael Schumacher F-1 car from Ferrari and 5th Gear tagged along to document the experience and the second when he tapped a wall in his Maserati MC 12 on a snowy race track.

What needs to happen is "Blackbox virtualization" and some some standardization. You can never have a Blackbox that works for all cars, as electronics get more and more powerful you could create a device which emulates the blackbox. In this way you could upload the image of the last Mk. VII blackbox software to a website, download it, install it on a device, and then install it in your car.

This would provide almost unlimited future compatibility along with the ability to archive, upgrade and improve the software. The biggest issue is the wire outputs, which would need some level of standardization for this scenario to work.

Inflation adjusted your $7,500 car in 1991 would cost $11,000 in 2006 (see http://www.westegg.com/inflation/ to perform the calculations). That is about $5,400 less than you can get a new 3 for (This site http://www.carreview.com/cat/automobiles/midsize-compact/mazda/PRD_292493_1531crx.aspx has the price at $16,400) but the new 3 is more powerful, faster, roomier, safer and more luxurious. We just expect much more from our cars, even the "cheap" ones than we ever have. Overall that's a good thing, I think.